Gigapan Comments
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This would have been a great GigaPan photo, if it
wasn't spoilt by so many weird added parts.
Different angles and intensities of shadow can
easily be explained by layers taken at different
times of day (or different days entirely).
However, you cannot say that the Monarch butterfly
is real and was ever there. For a start the shadow
is ridiculously wrong, but more than that - you
can zoom in to it's wings enough to see the
watermark. Last time I checked Monarch butterflies
don't have naturally-occuring watermarks on
their wings. Same can be said about the 'Jean
Luc Picard' person (snapshot 'Works for
Captain James T. Kirk) - that has obviously been
photoshopped in. For one it looks hand-drawn, and
secondly even if it were a real person - from that
distance there is no way they would have known you
were taking a picture - not just because of the
distance, but the fact the camera was pointed away
from them so they wouldn't know the lens was
wide enough to pick them out. Should have left the
photo in it's original state, and not messed
with it.

While the overall photo is great, I must say there
is some photoshopping going on here, for instance
the 'girl with the blue binder' has been
added after the fact. (shadow intensity is wrong,
shadows missing across her clothing, feet not
quite touching the ground, bluring around her
outline, etc..) Nothing wrong with being creative
as long as it is mentioned up front.

the butterfly snapshot is rather cheesy. the
shadow of cars and that of light poles and
pedestrians are all different directions. I wont
even mention the butterflies shadow... good job
though... but cheesy.

This image was taken repeatedly over about a
30-day period with different lighting conditions
and different cameras that were then combined.
This resulted in some image elements looking less
natural then others. However, almost all events
happened more or less as shown at some time during
the month.

It would have been nicer if those things to
explore where real. Many of those people you have
added to the pictures are so obvious that they
have been cut out of other pictures. Next time try
to edit them better. Overall this is a great
gigapixl photo.